In 2007 he was appointed Purandara Das Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Classics, Brown University.
In press, 2009 “The Sāṃkhya-Yoga “Manifesto” at MBh 12.289-290,” in proceedings of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference, John Brockington, ed.
2002 “The Rāma Jāmadagnya Thread of the Mahābhārata: A New Survey of Rāma Jāmadagnya in the Pune Text,” in Mary Brockington, ed., Stages and Transitions: Temporal and Historical Frameworks in Epic and Purāṇic Literature, Proceedings of the Second Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas, August, 1999 (Zagreb, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2002): 89-132.
2002 “Making Yudhiṣṭhira the King: The Dialectics and the Politics of Violence in the Mahābhārata,” Rocznik Orientalistyczny LIV (2001): 63-92.
2000 “pīta and śaikya/saikya: Two Terms of Iron and Steel Technology in the Mahābhārata,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 120.1 (January–March 2000): 44-61.
1998 “Some Storks and Eagles Eat Carrion; Herons and Ospreys Do Not: Kaṅkas and Kuraras (and Baḍas) in the Mahābhārata,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 118.2 (April–June 1998): 257-61.
“Book Review: The Mahabharata: A Play Based Upon the Indian Classic Epic.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 70 (3–4): 539–51.
1983 “The Great Epic of India as Religious Rhetoric: A Fresh Look at the Mahābhārata,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LI.4 (December, 1983): 611-630.